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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An unsuitable Palladian mansion in an unexciting East Anglian village on the edge of the black fens.
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Breeds on still and slow-moving fresh water with dense fringe of vegetation, also marshes, fens, bogs.
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Every fen went into more land.
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It has a fine collection of manorial and local government records, and its archive of fens drainage papers is unique.
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Relatively little of the peat fens had been reclaimed in medieval times.
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The fens threw up some odd crimes.
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Wetland sites include all those found in lakes, swamps, marshes, fens, and peat bogs.
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What the people wanted on the fen was what they had already: grazing.